Digital cinema
All us you must have been exposed
to digital cinema more or less as the using of digital technology has been
a trend
in filmmaking . For
instance, the AVATER, a very typical
Hollywood film, has used the digital skills to create a realistic
world for audience which let them forget that they are actually in the theater.
But what I want to introduce today is not this genre of digital film
which is only a part of digital film and rather commercial. Actually
what makes the digital film a
digital film is not the technology
applied but the narrative structure with which it was
programmed . the aesthetic meaning and the enlightenment the audience get from
it is more essential .
So I want to show a clip which is a very typical soft cinema or database
film ,which was directed by a key person in digital film field .
1.5-2 MINS CLIPS
MISSION TO EARTH symbolizes the experiences of a modern immigrant as wellas the experiences of those during the cold war . It attempts to show the trauma associated with a shift in identity as one changes his or her life . The soft cinema software uses several frames at once in this piece,displaying different things in each frame to portrary the split in identity that the man character, Inga, exoeriences. The software also changes the size and number of windows as it grabs the content from the database. Most of the video used for the database shot in LONDON, BERLIN, RIO DE JANEIRO .BUENOS AIRES ,AND SWEDEN. (wiki)
what we could find is the differences of the programming between this typical soft cinema from other films . First, the film does not follow a ordinary order ,instead, the narrative structure is combined digitally . So you can see many images on the screen at the same time with the storyteller describing .
Secondly, the soundtrack is the same one throughout the whole film. This is so distinct which is so different from the Hollywood film with vivid soundtrack according to the needs.
SO LET ME SHOW THE FORMAL DEFINITION OF SOFY CINEMA.
DEFINITION :
SOFT CINEMA is a collaborative new media art project headed by LEV MANOVICH. MANOVICH states that " soft cinema is a digital editior that provides an interface between human editors and a database of footage to ' perform ' different edits of the footage. Each performance is unique because software works with a set of parameters that allow for 'potentially every dimension ' of a film to change."
soft cinema just poses the aethetics of software culture ,cinema,and architecture into an interactive manifestation of computer-driven films, dynamic visualization,installation, architectural designs, print catalogs,and DVDs.
SOFT CINEMA takes the advantage of real-time software based cinema ,and how it may be applied to aspects of the contemporary life we live in .For example, the creation of "mega cities" ,or how new technology has come to effect subjectivity .The software in soft cinema completely relies on the use of databases ,choosing,organizing and editing movies on the fly in a non-linear but going to require a unique inter pretation. (WIKI)
Thanks.
- reference:^ Manovich, Lev. "New Media from Borges to HTML". The New Media Reader. The MIT Press.
- Jump up ^ http://www.softcinema.net/
